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		whywhywhywhy on May 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My students cheated... a lot Tests are a complete waste of time. Nothing in the world of work truly resembles what a test is so why bother testing for it. Students should be graded on projects and ability to do real things not memorization of a pre-determined set of facts.

tsukikage on May 29, 2022 [–]

Unit testing is also frequently very artificial and disconnected from production use of a codebase. Nevertheless, there is a great deal of value in checking whether things you wrote actually do have the effects you intended.

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